I guess before it goes completely bankrupt and into the toilet, USPS officials need to make sure its employees adhere a to regulation uniforms. Or at the very least make one scrooge within its ranks feel better about themselves by ruining the fun for everybody else.

After a co-worker whined to superiors about letter carrier Bob McLean’s ten year Santa Claus fixation, McSanta was told to ditch the jolly red and get back into the blues.

From the story, USPS spokesman Ernie Swanson, “He had been doing this for some (time) and there had not been an issue and a couple of weeks ago one of his fellow carriers raised the issue with management,” Swanson said. “The postmaster acknowledges that until one of his fellow carriers made an issue out of it he was okay with it,” Swanson said.

Nice. There is no end to the power of an offended sensibility in our culture.

But in the parlance of our “stick it to the man” occupy this and that times, McLean said in the story that he plans on disobeying the order and will continue to wear his Santa suit.